By Danielle Sugarman Fellow On March 15, 2012, the Supreme Court of Mississippi handed down its decision in Sierra Club v. Mississippi Public Service Commission and Mississippi Power Company, Inc. In a 9-0 vote, the Court reversed a 2010 Mississippi Public Service Commission decision permitting Mississippi Power Company to construct […]
After years as a political prisoner, Mohamed Nasheed was elected President of the Republic of the Maldives in 2008 in the first democratic election in that Indian Ocean nation’s history. Trained as a marine scientist, President Nasheed emerged as one of the leading voices of small island nations threatened by […]
By Julia Ciardullo Fellow This is the second in a series of blogs that will discuss some of the most notable recent legal developments in the field of intellectual property law and green technology. In a prior post, we discussed the expiration of the USPTO’s Green Technology Pilot Program and […]
By Julia Ciardullo Fellow There have been a number of interesting legal developments in recent months that highlight the importance of intellectual property law in the field of green technology. This post is the first in a series of blogs that will summarize some of the most notable legal developments, […]
Columbia Law School’s Clean Energy Investment US-India Project aims to enable U.S. investors and solar and other renewable energy equipment manufacturers to access the Indian market. So far, investment in this expanding market has been limited by high transaction costs. Funded by a generous grant by the Sujana Group and […]
On Thursday, March 1 from 6:30 – 8:30pm, the Columbia Law School Center for Climate Change Law will host a forum on the future of the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant. The Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant is located in Westchester County, New York, thirty miles north of New York […]
by Shelley Welton, Deputy Director & Fellow As I blogged about last October, the Northeast’s Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) is currently undergoing its 2012 program review. This review will look at many aspects of the program’s design and functioning, with the aim of determining whether major reforms are necessary […]
By Adam Riedel, CCCL Associate Director The insurance commissioners in three states, California, New York and Washington, have announced that they will require insurance companies in their respective states to complete a 12-question survey on the risks to insurers posed by climate change. California administered the survey in 2009 and […]